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Telegraphic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or transmitted by telegraph.  "Telegraphic news reports"
2.
Having the style of a telegram with many short words left out.  "The strange telegraphic speech of some aphasics"



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"Telegraphic" Quotes from Famous Books



... telegraphic sentences, half swallowed at the ends, They hint a matter's inwardness—and there the matter ends. And while the Celt is talking from Valencia to Kirkwall, The English—ah, the ...
— Actions and Reactions • Rudyard Kipling
... living at R—— was seized with a violent fever, and appeared to be at death's door. Intelligence having been sent to Maennedorf, united prayer was made in his behalf; and very soon afterwards a telegraphic message announced that he was recovering. On this occasion the promise was remembered with joy,' Before ...
— The Wonders of Prayer - A Record of Well Authenticated and Wonderful Answers to Prayer • Various
... the official recommended her to accept the offer, and put the young gentleman out of his misery. The communication was written in a large hand, about twelve words to a page, and liberally underlined. Printed in the corner were a telegraphic address, a telephone number, directions concerning nearest railway station. For heading, ...
— Love at Paddington • W. Pett Ridge
... that his father and himself worked in an astronomical station near Christ Church; that his father died; that his acquaintance with the Dodans was a reality; that he did receive messages at a wireless telegraphic station; that he himself and his assistants fully accredited these messages to extra-terrestrial sources, are, beyond a ...
— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap
... is going on flaggingly in England just now, on account of nobody caring to read anything but telegraphic messages. So Thackeray told somebody, only he might refer chiefly to the fortunes of the 'Newcomes,' who are not strong enough to resist the Czar. The book is said to be defective in story. Certainly the subject of ...
— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II • Elizabeth Barrett Browning


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